Society
- Lost Boys of Sudan, a Sudanese refugee resettlement program begun in 2001
- Lost boys (Mormon fundamentalism), young men excommunicated or pressured to leave polygamous groups
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Famous quotes containing the word society:
“Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“If we would enjoy the most intimate society with that in each of us which is without, or above, being spoken to, we must not only be silent, but commonly so far apart bodily that we cannot possibly hear each other’s voice in any case. Referred to this standard, speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)